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The NetFlow Analyzer team went to Queensland for an all-day team treat on Friday, ably coordinated by our Chief Treat Officer, Rajeshwar.

Queensland is a theme park and the theme is “strapped in various objects and jolted around violently at high speeds until your brains are vibrating like jelly”. Some of the rides are really scary and its surprising no one has got seriously injured so far. I personally sat out a couple of rides citing “upset stomach”. To a casual observer, it might have appeared that I was chickening out. As it is the case usually, the casual observers were right. I WAS chickening out. I mean, if the Good Lord had wanted us to be jolted around at high speeds, HE would not have given us bones. It is a lot of fun to sit around and watch people as they come out of these rides, tottering as though they have been hitting the bottle hard.

The Crazy Horse (which started briskly with the famous MGR number, “Achcham enbadu madamayada̶ soon had me clinging on to the horse (not a real one thankfully) desperately. The horse’s sole ambition in life seemed to be to hurl me down and make me the laughing stock of the people who gather around to watch the clumsy ones. Makes you feel glad that we have automobiles these days and we dont have to rely on horses to get around. But still, I think they should have given it a more appropriate name.

However, our team’s Jhansi Rani, Shuba and Anu enjoyed every bit of each ride and screamed for more. Jawahar was his quite self all the time, but something tells me that hes got a very wild side, yet undiscovered at

AdventNet. He just gives a knowing smile when probed deeper.

Gerald was a big hit with a bevy of school girls who had come there on an excusion. Such was Gerald’s popularity rating that Shah Rukh Khan might have felt neglected in this crowd. At several points we had to form a human chain around him to protect him from over enthusiastic “fans”.

But the quote of the day easily belonged to Senthil who, after a particularly “spinning” ride, wanted to know why we ran all our demos in Debian. Is it because it is more stable??

Stable!!!!!!!!